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Item Beyond the Screen: Why Fans Attend Anime Conventions(2026) Murugan, Alan; Tringali, BillyPoster presentation on the reasons behind anime convention attendance, presented at the 2026 1RIP symposium.Item Wikipedia Guide & Curriculum(Wikimedians of Indiana User Group, 2026-04-03) Flood, JamieThis guide is designed to help “demystify” Wikipedia and help information professionals understand how to edit and utilize Wikipedia as a tool of outreach, equity, and resource sharing. This guide looks to Wikipedia as an opportunity for public outreach, and for increasing discoverability of knowledge by sharing digitized collections on Wikipedia. These approaches create a more rich, reliable, and diverse reference work, while also increasing public access and interaction with institutional collections everywhere.Item Designing Meaningful Engagement: Open Education Week as a Tool for OER Advocacy and Awareness(Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2026-03-10) McMurray, KhrismaINTRODUCTION As more campuses embrace Open Educational Resources (OER) to increase access to course materials and reduce costs, librarians are often called on to lead the charge. But for those new to this work, especially when stepping into roles without clear guidance or established programs, it can be difficult to know where to begin. This case study describes how an academic library at an urban, research institution designed and implemented an open education week of events to reframe campus conversations around OER, not just as a cost-saving tool, but as a strategy for equity and connection. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAMS This inaugural Open Education Week featured a series of events highlighting faculty and student voices, including faculty panels, student stories displays, and skill-based workshops. The week was intentionally framed around storytelling to build emotional connection and shared purpose. By focusing on lived experience, the week moved beyond awareness-building and toward deeper engagement and community momentum. EVAULATION Qualitative feedback from attendees was collected through open-ended surveys and informal conversations. Participants emphasized the impact of hearing peer experiences, with several faculty initiating follow-up conversations about OER adoption or exploration. NEXT STEPS This article offers a replicable model for librarians who want to move beyond awareness and build meaningful engagement through their own OER programming. Future efforts will expand on this foundation with student co-led initiatives and campus storytelling projects that frame open education as a shared, value-driven practice.Item 2026 Open Education Week Impact Report(2026-03) McMurray, KhrismaThis report highlights the 2026 Open Education Week at IU Indianapolis, showcasing campus-wide engagement with Open Educational Resources (OER). It captures key outcomes, including doubled attendance, strong faculty interest in OER creation, and powerful student narratives about textbook affordability. Together, these insights demonstrate the growing momentum toward more accessible and equitable learning experiences on IU Indianapolis' campus.Item Teaching methods for evaluating information - Preliminary results of a scoping review(2026-03-26) Cooper, Mindy; Hinrichs, Rachel; Lowe, M. Sara; Snajdr, Eric; Stone, Sean M.Presentation at the Empirical Studies for Libraries SummitItem Pioneers of Open Knowledge: A History of Open Access at IU Indianapolis(2026-03-02) Molina, RachelThis session talked about the history of open access at IU Indianapolis, beginning with the creation of one of the first institutional repositories in the state of Indiana and highlighting the major milestones reached since its inception.Item Capturing Adolescent Studies: Developing a Targeted Search Hedge to Enhance Systematic Reviews(2026-03) Kavanaugh, Jill R.; Brennan, Emily A.; Craven, Hannah J.; Divis, Deborah D.; Hinrichs, Rachel J.; Jasmin, Hilary; Kysh, Lynn; Mason-Coles, Michele; Willis, Christine A.PURPOSE The objective of this project is to develop and validate a librarian-created search hedge (a standardized, pre-tested search strategy) to improve the identification of adolescent-focused studies. Adolescents represent a minority population in the medical literature and are frequently difficult to identify with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), as they are often included only as a small subgroup within adult or pediatrics studies. Existing database search strategies often lack the precision and recall needed to comprehensively capture adolescent health literature. This hedge is designed to enhance both sensitivity and specificity in identifying adolescent-focused studies within databases such as PubMed, supporting researchers, clinicians, and trainees conducting systematic reviews as well as bedside searching. METHODS A gold standard dataset was developed by selecting five health topics: Asthma, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, athletic injuries, dermatitis, and hepatitis. These topics were intentionally chosen to include conditions both highly relevant to adolescence and less age-specific, in order to rigorously test the search strategy’s ability to distinguish adolescent-focused studies. From PubMed, 1,000 articles across these topics were retrieved and screened in Covidence by a team of eight librarian reviewers to determine inclusion as adolescent-focused studies. Guided by existing hedges and preliminary testing, the team iteratively developed new strings (combinations of keywords, Medical Subject Headings, and age filters) through librarian peer review, combining MeSH terms, keywords, and age filters relevant to adolescents aged 13–17 years. Each string was tested in PubMed and evaluated against the gold standard set. For each iteration, we calculated true positives (TP), true negatives (TN), false positives (FP), and false negatives (FN), and derived sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and overall accuracy. RESULTS Using the gold standard dataset, the core hedge retrieved TP=182, TN=619, FP=58, and FN=141, corresponding to 56.3% sensitivity, 91.4% specificity, 75.8% PPV, 81.4% NPV, and 80.1% overall accuracy. Compared to the PubMed Adolescent filter (50.2% sensitivity, 93.2% specificity), the hedge modestly improved sensitivity with only a small tradeoff in specificity. A bedside-oriented version achieved very high specificity (98.4%) and precision (88.7%) but much lower sensitivity (26.6%). Testing of additional variants, including puberty, young adult, and adolescent parents, did not improve performance beyond the core hedge. Further refinements will focus on increasing sensitivity while maintaining acceptable specificity. CONCLUSIONS A librarian-developed search hedge can improve sensitivity compared to the standard PubMed Adolescent filter, though overall sensitivity remains modest. Different versions may be tailored to systematic reviews (favoring sensitivity) or bedside use (favoring specificity), offering flexibility depending on the research or clinical context. This study represents the first validated search hedge specifically designed for adolescent health, providing a reproducible approach to strengthen evidence synthesis in this understudied population.Item Advice From an Early-Career Digital Archivist(2026-02) Miller, EvanPresentation given to the Indiana University Indianapolis Library and Information Science Digital Preservation course (LIS-S 582) in February 2026. The presentation provides advice to students pursing archives careers and learning more about digital preservation from the perspective of an early-to-mid-career digital archivist. The presentation discusses the presenter's career journey, their past positions and projects, and their current position and projects. The guest lecture was pre-recorded, and students watched it virtually.Item JAMS@AX 2025 Conference Report(IOPN, 2025-12-16) Waggoner, Emilie; Tringali, Billy; Bone, TabithaThis year, the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) hosted the JAMS@AX 2025 Academic Symposium, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines to audiences from all over the world. Since 2023, JAMS has continued to bring together fans and scholars at Anime Expo to explore anime on a deeper level through a variety of viewpoints, disciplines, and academic study. The theme of this year’s Anime Expo was “academia”, which was incorporated throughout the panels in the academic symposium. Scholars were encouraged to explore how different disciplines can be explored through anime and how critical scholarship can be achieved through engaging with anime at a deeper level. The panels included research around girlhood and identity, music theory and well-known anime music tracks, family and community within anime, and how anime can be a central hub for inquiry and exploration of knowledge. Additionally, panelists also discussed ecology and social commentary within anime, how to apply science within anime, and how educators across the globe are incorporating anime into the classroom. This report provides an overview of the key research ideas shared within these panels and the highly engaging discussions that took place throughout the symposium.Item Yellow Songs(Wayne State University Press, 2013) Tomberlin, CetoriaPoem published in volume 9 (2013) of Fairy Tale Review.